Very disappointed......


We keep being told how dangerous Mexico is to visit these days, and a couple of my friends have had some very nasty experiences there recently , but I was hoping for something better in this movie since it was set in 1938.

But no, with one or two exceptions, same ol' same ol' - corruption, murder, decadence and hatred displayed toward the gringo.

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Wow! incredible research! a very informed opinion. you must have gone to school with lou dobbs. and glenn beck.

you've formed an opinion about a country based on some friends and a 25-year-old movie set 70 years ago... hang on... maybe that's how people get anti-american sentiment justified in other countries, too?? by employing your kind of logic?

i'm an arab living in lebanon. i just watched 'earth girls are easy' and 'syriana'. some of my friends told me about how awful new york is. i had hoped for something better. but nope, america is the same as always - wanton meaningless sex, military-industrial fascism, and hatred.

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wanton meaningless sex, military-industrial fascism, and hatred.


Wow, that means SO much from a bigoted, hate-filled Lebanese Islamofascist who fears the opposite sex and believes he has the right to enslave and murder the rest of his fellow human beings because he was instructed to by an illiterate pedophile who heard voices in his head.

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Way to completely misunderstand the point of the post you're replying to.



"facts are stupid things" Ronald Reagan

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to the OP:

You said, "I was hoping for something better in this movie since it was set in 1938. "

*Based on what criteria?


"There is no inner peace. There is only nervousness and death." - Fran Lebowitz

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Why do the people who have posted here CARE? What does it matter to you if a country, other than your own, has ANY negative characteristics? If you don't like a country, don't go there. Unless they are performing hostile deeds towards America, what business is it of us HOW they run their country?

Paula Jo

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@dorrity -

Well, there are these examples throughout history, past and present, where an opinion of another country's atrocities might be of American interest:

1) The Japanese invasion of Asia, circa WWI-II
2) The German invasion of Europe, WWII
3) The Holocaust
4) The Cambodian genocide
5) Stalin's purge of Russia
6) Mao's purge of China
7) The current situations in Lybia, Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, et al.
8) The SLORC Junta in Burma.
9) The exile of the Dalai Lama and the destruction of Tibet
10) The human rights violations of many of the aforementioned countries, as well as a great many on the African continent (Sudan, Zimbabwe, etc.)
11) The nuclear ambition of Kim Jong-Il, not to mention the entire destruction of the North Korean people.
12) Al-Queda, The Taliban, and the rise of fascist theocracy in the middle east.
13) Italian fascism, WWII
14) The Turkish genocide in Armenia, WWI
15) The rights of the Basque and Catalan independence movements in Spain, as well as the Irish.
16) Apartheid in South Africa, which continues unoffically
17) the, yes, drug war in Mexico and Latin America

I could go on and on and on. Your question seems to assume America should have no interest in her allies, in her assertion that we will stand by other nations we've pledged loyalty towards and expect that same loyalty in return. We aren't Switzerland. A number of people might like to see us as an isolationist nation, but I think one cannot build an international cooperative based on trade alone.

Isn't it appropriate for Americans to speak out against international atrocities whether or NOT the affect America directly? If not, why not? It involves more than just being a tourist and whether one's own immediate livelihood is at stake. To withdraw any kind of moral pledge to people in desperate need is kind of a sick cynical attitude, no? Remember, if we hadn't helped Europe and the rest of Asia in WWII, there would probably be two world languages as of right now: Japanese and German.

I'd consider this before making sweeping statements about isolationism. Two cents.

"There is no inner peace. There is only nervousness and death." - Fran Lebowitz

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